Unable to add more than 2 WLANs "normally"

[Evil Genius]

Binary package hint: network-manager-kde

I have joined two wireless networks without problems and saved their profiles. Now I want to join a third one, but everytime I click on the SSID, the "add network connection" windows opens but instead of showing SSID and other data of the network I want to join it shows the data of one of the already existing profiles (mostly the last one entered). If I change now the displayed values to the one matching the current wireless network and click "ok", the already existing entry which data was displayed is overwritten.

The menu entry "Connect to other wlan" (or similar) shows the same behavior.

To have more than two profiles I had to open the management list of networks and add one manually.
Sorry that I can not provide the original names of the windows, I use a german version so I guess it may not be very helpful.

The bug appears with the "original" 10.04 as well as with kde 4.4.3 packages installes from the kubuntu-ppa.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager-kde 1:0.9~svn1112085-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 9 07:58:08 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: plasma-widget-networkmanagement

[Andy Neitzke (neitzke)]

I have this problem too (in 9.10 and 10.04). Let me just add that a similar problem occurs even if you try to add the connections by hand -- clicking "Manage Connections..." in the systray applet menu, then selecting the "Wireless" tab and clicking "Add..." brings up a dialog which is populated with the information from some _previously existing_ wireless connection. A workaround is to cancel that dialog and click "Add..." again; this brings up a dialog again populated with a previously existing connection, but a different one. Repeatedly cancelling and re-opening the dialog it runs through my list of wireless connections; once that list has been exhausted it finally says "New Wireless Connection" as it should, and allows me to add a new one without killing off one of my old ones.

Should this be reported upstream? If so, where? I am not clear on whether this dialog is part of KDE, part of networkmanager, or some custom Ubuntu thing.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly let us known.

And, if you feel like it: it indeed requires an upstream report, so the KDE developers are notified of this problem. You can do so by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/KDE. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we (or you) can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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